Tuesday, February 20. 2018

"Medical boards have gained tremendous power over doctors’ ability to practice medicine, and while standards are needed to protect patients, medical boards frequently misuse that power. License revocation and other career-ending punishments are being used to stifle free speech, free thinking and the open-minded investigation that should be a cornerstone of science itself.
Dr Mark Geier, a medical doctor with a PhD in genetics, lost his medical license in 2011 for using controversial chelation therapy to treat autistic children. After the Maryland Board of Physicians published a list of medicines prescribed to Geier, his wife and son on its website, Geier sued the board for harassment and won. Montgomery County Circuit Court awarded Geier $2.5 million in damages, calling it a significant breach of medical privacy; half of the damages must be paid out of pocket by the board’s appointees."

Comment:
The most significant part of this ruling is in the last paragraph whereby half the compensation must be paid out of pocket by the boards' appointees. The appointees exert significant influence in policy often at the behest of big pharma and occupy revolving door appointments between industry, legislature and regulatory bodies.
Dr Mercola goes onto say:
"The fact that the board members are being held personally liable is a first. Normally, taxpayers foot the entire bill when government officials are caught in wrongdoing. As noted by The Bolen Report, "What the officials of the Maryland Board of Physicians did was not in pursuit of the people's business. It was for pharma profit." Fortunately, this time the scheme backfired, delivering a very real sting.

He ordered 14 board appointees, the board's lead attorney and the lead investigator on the Geier case to pay half of the damages out of their own pockets, between $10,000 and $200,000 apiece, depending on their net worth."

This kind of absolute control has caused many doctors and dentists severe problems, and many have been struck off. One case that comes to mind is the late Dr Hal Huggins in the USA who advocated the removal of amalgam fillings and replacement with other non-toxic materials. The use of amalgam has now been banished in many countries, and it is universally accepted that it must not be used and yet Dr Huggins lost all his credibility.

Dr Huggins Wikipedia entry says:
Hal Huggins was an American campaigner against the use of dental amalgam fillings and other dental therapies that he believed to be unsafe. Huggins began to promote his ideas in the 1970s and played a major role in generating controversy over the use of amalgam. Huggins had his license to practice dentistry revoked in 1996 after a panel found him guilty of gross negligence. Since then, he continued to publish on the topic of mercury and human health and believed that dental amalgam and other dental practices were responsible for a range of serious diseases."

While I do not agree with some of Dr Huggins' claims that amalgam was at the heart of all illnesses and that these illnesses could all be treated successfully by detoxification and removal of amalgam, the fundamentals of amalgam removal have merit.

Other medical cases come to mind where the same therapy as used by Dr Mark Geier in Dr Mercola's article has landed a couple of doctors in serious trouble with the medical governing bodies. One was struck off, and the other suffered serious financial loss causing him to close down his practice because as soon as he was charged the stories were all over the newspapers. His affairs were gone through with a fine tooth comb, and he had to close his practice down. Eventually after much trauma and stress and the loss of hundreds of thousands of pounds he was found guilty only of poor record keeping. He has no means of recovering his losses for the blown up and trumped-up charges at the behest of some illegitimate and unfounded complaint; a complaint which could have been dealt with through some correspondence directly with the accused. He should sue, and the judges should award a similar out of pocket compensation. Such outcomes would stop dead in the tracks all the business manipulation that occurs all around us.

Dr Eustace Mullins writings come to mind in his publication "Murder by injection" the medical conspiracy behind the establishment of these governing bodies and their intimate connections with the medico-industrial complex. Mullins is one of the most accomplished investigative journalists of the 20th century. "Murder by injection" should be required reading for anyone interested in knowing how mainstream medicine has co-opted man's health and well being. Dr Eustace Mullins presents a superbly written, well-documented account of the myth that health care in the medical establishments is the best in the world. You will be startled to find that the main thing that is "best" about medical care is that both the medical and pharmaceutical industries are the best at extracting the wealth of countries and their citizens. Illness is perpetuated rather than resolved. Controls are exerted by the governing bodies to prevent some honest doctors from doing the best for their patients by actually finding relief for them through non-drug means. Tight controls are exerted to ensure that the practitioners work within sharply defined remits even if such practices cure absolutely no one ever.